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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Ok, I think yesterday's post was getting a little Wreck-less there, what with the cute dreadlocked spiders and all. Sorry. Here, this should help:

One smashed spider extraordinaire, coming up! Don't you just love those bloated little legs, the pimply red dots, and how they moved him after air-brushing the board? Oh, and just to mess with your sense of perspective: that red thing above the eyes is not another unibrow; it's his mouth.

I'll give you a moment to reorient yourself. (My ear hit my shoulder the first time, too.)

Now brace yourself, because next up is the most frightening Spider wreck I have ever seen.

Also, if you look closely at a tarantula (an occupation I'd advise you against), you'd notice that in addition to its eight legs, it has two smaller leg-like appendages called pedipalps. Since those icing-ball creatures bear no other resemblance to any known spider, I have no idea what I'm going on about.

i think the worst ones are the cookie "spiders." and i love how half of the web on the bottom left one is squiggly, and then the decorator obviously thought, "nope, that looks like crap, too" and didn't even bother to do the whole cookie the same way. classic.

Come on people, spiders have 8 legs! I don't think a single one of these examples has the right number of legs. Smashed spider #1 only has 6. And the 4-legged spiders...maybe a bratty kid tortured it by ripping half its legs off?

Eeek is right!!! I am so dying right now because that second one does look just like Snuffy!!!lol!!!And I cannot believe an actual bakery had those "spider" cookies in their display case...my 5 year old could make better looking spiders than that!!!

That "Eeeek" cake is great. I wonder what is going through the mind of a Wal-Mart cake decorator when they decided on an inscription. I'd like to think it's something like, "Man, this cake looks like crap. Eek! Uh, dude, that is perfect!"

Alright, get a young priest and an old priest. Snuffy, is there anybody in there with you?Snuffy: Sometimes...That second cake is SCARY. Or maybe poor Snuffy isn't possessed and he just wanted to dress as Samara/Sadako from "The Ring" and the long black hair got a little out of control? Hmm...The first cake looks like spiders usually do in our house....smashed beyond recognition. And again with the six legs. *scratches her head* Can nobody count?

The first spider, besides only 6, albeit quite plump, flattened legs, was perhaps not purposely moved after the board was air-brushed. It looks like he was centered when the board was colored, but shifted on the way to the house where this picture was taken. Both of these problems are due to the cupcake-i-ness of the spider creation:1) Spider legs the thickness of cupcakes makes for very wide spider legs.2) The cupcake paper, as opposed to cake, on the bottom means he's fairly mobile in his clear plastic domed traveling case.So, once again we see why CCC are a bad idea. QED

No Way! I get to be the first to comment??? I'd like to say that I love cake wrecks and have been following the spidery extravaganza. I kinda liked the muppety spider yesterday. My hubby laughed hysterically while reading your "rasta" talk to me out loud. Todays wrecks...well exactley that. WRECKS! But can I politely point out one thing thats bothered me in all spidery posts? WHY can't anyone count anymore??? 4 legs, 6 legs, 10 legs? I think mybe 1 wreck actually had 8 legs. Talk about not being able to properly recreate something with life-like features. Its almost as bad as using horrible quotation marks!!!

Okay, I think I would have done a better job of doing spiders when I was elementary school than the "ant on bullseye" cupcakes! There was so much wobble there... I hope either the decorator is severely geriatric and caffinated, or else has Parkinson's, because whose hands shake that much!?

Okay, i have to disagree with you on the last one. Those aren't 10 legs on the one on the right. The front things are supposed to be pincers, like on an ant. So I think they are 8 legged ants, as opposed to spiders (Not that it makes it any better).

And the possesed one made me think of the Swamp Thing. You probably never saw that movie though.....

EEEEK is right! Were these decorated during take your child to work day? I am still scratching my head at the first one, never mind the 6 legs again, but if you turn it so the "mouth" is facing front, the writing is upside down. Love your blog, it is the first thing I look at every morning at work.

Well now we know where the missing legs from yesterdays spiders went! They are on the last cake. (I think the decorator meant for them to be pinchers in the front)

All this black icing - ew- how do you eat it?

The cupcake creations are so hard to make look nice, but I'm always impressed at the effort. I worked at a school that did not allow you to bring in a cake that needed to be cut, so cupcake creations were the only choice...

What really freaks me out is the number of people who keep putting (insert random non-8 number here) legs on their spiders, instead of the standard 8. Are we to assume that these are maimed spiders? That IS scary!

OH MY MY MY! Ok, the flat spider, just laziness. BUT WHAT THE HECK is the deal with that hairy "Ode to Tarantula" crap. Yea, lets bring that out at the party. All the kiddies will go a runnin.. Yea Memories!

is it too much to ask, (of cake decorators as of filmmakers), that arachnids have 8 legs and insects have 6? 10 appendages are for squid!The best strategy to take here may be to Eat Them All Real Quick so we don't have to look at them any more.

There are so many things to say, but I want to be sure there's enough room for all the comments - So, I'll just stick with the putrid color of the frosting on the squished ant / spider cookies.N-A-S-T-Y...It looks like mold or something. Ick :o(

hey now.. take it easy on the poor decorators!! not everyone had a college course in invertebrate biology and knows that arachnid species have 8legs! and, by the way, ants are insects and should have 6 legs. Yes, both are members of the Arthropod phylum, but belong to different Classes!

I think because.....OK, so we have a ten-legged spider (perhaps so he can share with some of his friends above...?) And I can see that maybe the idea was to make the front two pincers (yes, that's soooo much better)

But look at the one on the left. I'm assuming there is a leg behind the shine of the packaging and I still count....nine. Either way, he's a mutant!

I thought the pimply 6 legged CCC was bad...until I saw the other wrecks on this post. In comparison, that first one is almost decent. Only in comparison and only almost decent...just to set the record straight!

Cake #2 - Agree with earlier posts -- Dear Snuffy has been eaten by Cthulu or The Swamp Creature. What would really make it a ick-tastic would be to change the colors to 'camo' or decomp. green & brown. Then I'd buy it & serve it up at my sci-fi halloween party as a Klingon petit-four (?)

If it were the icing balls in the last one that had 4 limbs instead of the ant cookies, they would have made awesome soot balls! (From the movie Spirited Away.)

But then there's still the black icing... which is disgusting. Even if someone made soot balls on purpose and were really cute, I still couldn't eat one. Black is a horrible color for icing. How much food coloring do they have to use to make it BLACK and not grey?

I think the spiders in the last pic are complete with pedipalps. Those help spiders sense objects and aid in prey capture and feeding. They're part of the mouth, and not legs.Just FYI. :o) (I have a tarantula btw)

The first 'spider' is so sad looking, and the demonic snufflupagus? Ugh. LOL

Eight legs, people, EIGHT LEGS! Isn't that one of the first things we learn as children? Octogons and spiders - EIGHT. I'd say that they haven't been watching Sesame Street, except that one Snuffy-like cake begs to differ.Is it wrong that after reading this post, I'm craving cake?

Holy cheez, that Spiderupagus is one nightmarish-lookin' creation. And you just know that the icing is the cheap kind you buy in a can at grocery stores; that spider no doubt has a clayey, flakey texture and enough sugar to burn the roof of your mouth off. Urgle.

When in doubt, find out...If you don't know what something looks like but want to draw (or make icing pictures of) it, then get a reference picture first!

I figure the first cake only has 6 legs because cupcake-legs are just too fat. I also can accept the idea that the last cake has 10-legged spiders because 2 legs are supposed to be palps. But those cookies? No excuse.

These are definitely more wreck-taculous than yesterday's spiders. The Snuffy spider is creeping me out! Yesterday an example of an unintentionally good version of a muppet character; this one is definitely an unintentionally bad version of a muppet!

Oh Lord. Another ROTFLMAO entry. Squashed ants, yep. I C that 2 ! And I think I might be a little too old to know Snuffleupagus (sp?), but I definitely see Cousin It as did several other (I presume) Boomers did. I'm not sure about Cthulhu either, but I'll take your fan base word for it! I'll have to Wiki that one. I agree with the replete tick observation too. Yuck.

Any kid who has seen a tarantula can tell you that the spider that appears to have ten legs actually has 8 legs plus in the front it has 2...ummm...don't know the actual word for them but when I was a kid we called them spider weenies. (though those are rather long ones...)

Those spiders from yesterday were in fact the ones that were at the store that I was yelled at for trying to take pictures. They are all kinds of day glow horror now, and most only have 4 legs on one side. (if they are there tomorrow morning I am buying one and taking its picture then sending it to you after letting everyone at work scarf it down.)These people are "professionals"? Bacon who is 4 could do a better job on no sleep and blindfolded than these people!

Ok I wouldn't have picked out that the red line on the first one (the "squashed ant") is a MOUTH because usually the direction the inscription faces is the direction you supposed to look at the cake from. So, since the text faces towards the camera, I vote it IS a unibrow! If the text faced the the same way as the supposed smile, THEN it would be a smile.

I just worked on spiders in my invertebrate zoology course at uni so I yelled at the screen with all the wrong-legged spiders. My husband threatened no more cake-wrecks if I couldn't behave myself. But I MUST MENTION ticks and mites are also arachnids and also have 8 legs. So these are more like beetles than ticks.

The cake that you think looks like a demented Snuffy reminded me of the evil possessed warthog-like creature in Hiyao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke". It's a great anime film from the true Master of the genre.

The "demon-possed Snuffaluffagus or whatever cake is actually Cthulhu!!! And while looking through the other comments, I found somebody else found this!!! Amazing. Now I need to learn to speak Cthuvian.

I just found this website today, and have been going through it like water in a desert! I love the cakes, and the comments. They're amusing, often bringing smiles, but nothing made me laugh out loud until the possessed Snuffles cake. You were spot on there, Jen.

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